Can someone recommend a good native Linux Lemmy client that's not a lazy Flatpak distribution?
Can someone recommend a good native Linux Lemmy client that's not a lazy Flatpak distribution?
I've tried Lemoa: it's truly atrocious to put it mildly. Besides, I couldn't compile it on my GTK3 distro, there is no .deb, and using Flatpak means wasting hundreds of megabytes for what should be a simple, lightweight client. If I want to waste RAM, my browser is already running so I might as well use the web app from my instance.
I've tried Lemonade: the Python code doesn't run (again, GTK4 dependencies), and the Flatpak doesn't even display anything.
Liftoff is Flutter. No thanks...
NeonModem isn't complete.
Servitor is command line. I love the command line, but that's just the wrong environment for this.
Is there really nothing on Linux?
I’m kind of surprised there are Linux clients at all. You might just have to use the PWA until one of the clients becomes more mature.
Maybe try Voyager (previously wefwef) in compact mode?
I'm surprised there isn't a stable, real, lean client for Linux - or MacOS, or Windows. Lemmy has been around for what, 3 or 4 years now, and it's not rocket science.
Web apps disguised as native programs and Android apps running in an emulator make no sense because the memory wastage means you're better off opening another browser tab and running the real web app. Flatpak / Snap / AppImage apps are native clients, but make no sense either for the same reason. Unless the wasteful local client is so much better than the wasteful real in-browser app that it's worth the memory expenditure of course.
Oh well, it works well enough in the browser I guess :)
Sure it’s been around for a while but almost no one was aware of it until around June 30th. It’ll happen eventually
In your post, you mentioned trying to compile a python app but not being able to due to GTK4 dependencies. That’s part of what Flatpak is trying to solve; dependency hell. Storage is so cheap now and it’s getting cheaper every year, you don’t think the few extra MBs are worth it?
Personally, I’d like it if most Linux apps were packaged as Flatpaks by their maintainers. It would let me try out more distros since I wouldn’t be missing any apps.